Asian Week kicks off 12 Weeks of Foodie Summer with prizes, local restaurants & Asian Night Market
Tucson Foodie’s 12 Weeks of Foodie Summer has formally begun, and Asian Week is first up.
The citywide eating marketing campaign runs from Monday, May 18, by way of Sunday, Aug. 9, with a brand new theme every week and a easy mission: eat local, help Tucson restaurants in the course of the slower summer time season, and win prizes alongside the best way.
For Week 1, diners can go to any domestically owned Tucson restaurant, café, bar, bakery, meals truck, or meals spot that matches the Asian Week theme. After eating out, contributors can add a photograph of their receipt by way of the 12 Weeks of Foodie Summer web page for an opportunity to win weekly prizes.
This week’s prize lineup features a $100 Visa reward card, a $50 Kin Dee Thai reward card, a $50 Tuk Tuk Thai reward card, and a $50 Saigon Blossoms reward card
How Asian Week works
Participating takes just some steps.
First, eat at a domestically owned Tucson spot that matches the Asian Week theme. Then, snap a photograph of your receipt and add it on-line. The receipt should present the restaurant title, date, and whole.
Each legitimate receipt counts as one entry. Diners can enter as much as 3 times a day, which implies breakfast, lunch, and dinner can every rely individually. Weekly winners will probably be chosen at random, with three to 5 winners picked every week.
Every legitimate receipt additionally rolls into the grand prize drawing on the finish of the 12-week marketing campaign.
Where to begin for Asian Week
Asian Week offers Tucsonans a cause to revisit longtime favorites, strive one thing new, and discover the local restaurants shaping the town’s Asian meals scene.
The 12 Weeks of Foodie Summer web page highlights a number of domestically owned spots to get began, together with Ate Kei’s Filipino Treats, Bombolé Eatery, Fuku Sushi, Gully Bakehouse, Ikkyu, Kin Dee Thai, Maru Plus, Noodleholics, OBON Sushi Bar Ramen, and Samurai Sombrero.
This week additionally brings new specials tied to the celebration.
Noodleholics is launching Málà Peanut, that includes its wheat noodles tossed in a wealthy, creamy peanut sauce with a daring málà kick. Inspired by Sichuan delicacies, málà brings that signature mixture of numbing warmth and spice, making the dish a becoming decide for anybody wanting so as to add a bit of further tingle to Asian Week.
Meanwhile, Kin Dee Thai is rolling out a Khao Mun Gai combo with fried rooster on Friday as a promo for Asian Night Market. The restaurant can even provide an Asian Night Market particular with a beverage pairing for a hard and fast value.
The theme stretches past one slim definition of Asian meals. Diners can use the week to hunt out ramen, sushi, Filipino sweets, Indian dishes, Thai meals, Japanese consolation meals, Asian-inspired specials, and extra, so long as the spot is domestically owned and suits the theme.
Asian Night Market closes out the week
Asian Week will wrap with Asian Night Market on Saturday, May 23.
The occasion serves as one of the marketing campaign’s first three anchor occasions, alongside the Wine Week kickoff with AZ Wine Collective on May 25 and Vegan Night Market on June 6. Together, the occasions launch the summer time marketing campaign with meals, neighborhood, and a direct push to help local restaurants.
For diners trying to make a full night of it, Kin Dee Thai’s Khao Mun Gai combo with fried rooster and fixed-price beverage pairing particular will give Asian Night Market visitors another excuse to reach hungry.
The greater image
Tucson Foodie created 12 Weeks of Foodie Summer to rally diners round local restaurants throughout one of the hardest stretches of the yr.
“Tucson summers are really tough on our local economy, especially restaurants,” Addie Ibarra, neighborhood director at Tucson Foodie, stated within the marketing campaign announcement. “We wanted to create something that gives our community a reason to go out, try something new, and feel good about supporting local.”
Asian Week runs by way of Saturday, May 24. After that, the marketing campaign continues with Wine Week from May 25 to 31, adopted by Vegan Week from June 1 to 7, Coffee & Tea Shop Week, Happy Hour Week, Frozen Dessert Week, Burger Week, New-to-Me Week, Italian Week, Breakfast & Brunch Week, Steak & Carne Asada Week, and Sonoran Week.
To enter Asian Week, add receipts, and observe the complete summer time schedule, go to summer.tucsonfoodie.com.
